Новости за 17.11.2017

A group of scientists, physicians and public health officials is calling for a nationwide research initiative to better understand the health effects of man-made fluorinated compounds, such as those leaked into drinking water from Fairchild Air Force Base.

France's Foreign Ministry said a Saudi-led coalition has "extracted" two French female journalists from war-torn Yemen.

Marcus Bennett has started the past six games for the Falcons, and his production has helped finally separate him in a position battle with Geraud Sanders and Jake Matkovich.

Fort Bragg leaders anticipate at least 2,500 new troops will move to the nation’s largest military installation in the coming years.

Turkey has pulled its troops from a NATO exercise following an accusation from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Friday that he and the country’s founding father were named at an “enemies table” during a war game.

A 101-year-old man who got as far as the front door of his burning Fountaingrove home before telling his wife to run to safety without him was the latest victim to be identified Thursday by coroner’s officials as one of 23 people known to have died in Sonoma County in last month’s wildfires.

Fort Gordon officials have completed an investigation into an incident in which dozens of soldiers said they were marched to an Oct. 14 “spiritual fitness” barbecue and made to undergo fundamentalist Christian proselytizing against their will.

Robert Wilkie has been unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.

A celebrity Russian TV host who intends to run for president in next March's election said Friday that she hopes to make the nations' tightly-controlled political system more inclusive and democratic.

Harold Tor lost part of his left arm in the Philippines in World War II, but never lost his spirit or his zest for life.

The Rev. Robert Fuehrer's down-to-earth approach served him well, whether he sought to inspire members of his flock at the First Presbyterian Church of Jeannette or to comfort fellow military servicemembers.

Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri dismissed reports about his alleged detention in Saudi Arabia as "rumors," hours before he is expected to leave the kingdom to France two weeks after his surprise resignation.

In the nearly six weeks since we learned of the ambush in Niger in which Islamist militants killed four American soldiers, it has often felt as if the more we are told about this tragedy, the less we really know.

The line between appropriate and inappropriate policy inclinations cannot be drawn with the same detachment as evaluation of professional experience and competence.

Newly released Pentagon data show Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia has received the most reports of sexual assaults among U.S. military installations worldwide for the last three years.

Residents of Washington state turned their eyes to a clear blue sky Thursday and found themselves staring at a cartoonish rendering of male genitalia, sketched in smoke by at least one Navy EA-18G Growler jet flying out of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.

The parents of a 20-year-old Okinawan woman murdered last year told a packed courtroom Friday they want the former Air Force contractor charged in her death to pay for the brutal crime with his life.

In August, shortly after President Donald Trump authorized the buildup as part of a new strategy, the military said about 11,000 troops were in Afghanistan — thousands more than had been officially disclosed before that. The “new number” is about 14,000, said Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, director of the Joint Staff.

About 120 U.S. Army and Serbian paratroopers dropped side by side from the gray sky here outside Belgrade on Friday, wrapping up four days of drills aimed at building military capabilities and a partnership between two countries with a troubled past.

As Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman detonates his bombs, he must avoid blowing himself up.

Strangulation, as a signal of dangerousness, is not only overlooked by most law enforcement officers and prosecutors, it’s not always recognized by health care workers.

The military has decided that art made by wartime captives is U.S. government property and has stopped releases of security-screened prisoner art to the public. One attorney says the U.S. military intends to burn cellblock art.

There are now 500 U.S. troops in Somalia, where the military has carried out daily airstrikes in the past week, but the Pentagon refuses to call it a buildup.

Ezra Miller brings an electric energy to the superhero team-up film “Justice League,” pinballing off the more imposing presences of Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot and Ben Affleck.

The president can annihilate the people of North Korea entirely on his own.